A few of your favorite things…

My favorite recipe of yours is probably the technique for Volume Ice Cream… though I can’t say I’ve ever made it exactly by the recipe. I mean well, but then the urge to throw in, say, a handful of pureed strawberries or some peanut butter is just too overwhelming.

I tried your chocolate PB fudge for the first time last night, and loved it! Tasted sooo rich and decadent, and got rave reviews from a non-vegan/non-health-freak friend 😀

Yes! The roasted chick peas were awesome! I also intend to try making the Chocolate Chip Blondies. Unfortunately I’m a lot like my Grandma. I love reading recipes but when it comes to cooking we ignore them and do our own thing anyway 😛

Another thing I have to admit is that I hate (hate!) cleaning the blender. I was out and about yesterday, book shopping in second hand stores to be honest, and I came across a vintage peanut butter maker! It was the coolest thing. You put your peanuts in the hopper on top and peanut butter is supposed to flow out of the spout on the side. I had visions of making my own coconut butter in it but 2 things stopped me: one was the cleaning of it and the other was the price. Because it was “vintage” from the 60’s or 70’s they wanted an arm and a leg for it!

Oh, and this was in our paper yesterday and I thought you might appreciate it:
http://www.timescolonist.com/health/Veteran+Victoria+vegans+opens+quirky+little+store/5165578/story.html
I’m going to check it out when I get a chance!

I am in love with fudge babies! So excited to make cashew cookie version- and have also been experimenting with all different kinds of vegan fudge. my new fave is a version with homemade nutella! so fun! http://www.grainfreegroupie.blogspot.com.

I have tried tons of your recipes and all were a huge success!
You chose good ones, but I would also add Deep Dish Cookie Pie and your Oatmeal recipes! And your salty recipes are awesome, too. Tofu scramble, for example. Also I love your brownies that include tofu. Oh gosh, it is really hard to choose now that I think about it! I have never tried a single of your recipes I didn´t like. All recipes are awesome.

Fudge babies! They got me hooked … though I like them better with a figgy (rather than date) base. I’ve saved dozens of dollars on lara bars because of you, Katie! Also love your milkshakes and voluminous oatmeal.

Although I didn’t make you Chocolate-Cherry Bomb Oatmeal to a tee, I made something sort of similar- but your creative genius was all there 🙂

http://www.snackingsquirrel.com/2011/07/frozen-cherry-and-carob-oat-parfait.html

I made sure to add a little shout out to you as well, credit goes where credit is deserved hehe

xoxo <3

Oh my YES, Katie! You’re babies are amazing and had to slap my sister away from my bowls of “baby dough” or they wouldn’t have made it to the Christmas dessert table. She was begging me for the tiramisu recipe. I’ve passed along the Samoa baby recipe to many drooling fans and I ate my entire first batch out of the bowl. I was naughty and didn’t offer a taste to my husband as I knew he’d steal it away from me. 🙂

I’m actually making the CC Blondies for a party tonight. The coconut banana frosting is AMAZING! My only flop was the agar agar whipped cream….it was more like thick soup with an odd taste. Any helpful hints? Thanks for blogging and passing along such fun yummies to all of us!

Hi Katie! This is just a random post, but I didn’t know where to put it. I read this comment and thought of you and how you don’t like supersweet things 🙂

“Not everyone has the same amount of taste buds.
According to Nicholas Bower, MD, district medical director at MedExpress, the average adult has between 2,000 and 10,000 taste buds. People who have more than 10,000 are considered to be “supertasters” because they taste things more intensely. “Research has shown that supertasters don’t like vegetables very much because they taste bitterness so intensely,” says Dr. Bartoshuk. “They also may find very sweet desserts, like crème brûlée, to be over-the-top sugary.” To find out where you fall on the taste spectrum, Dr. Bartoshuk recommends an easy at-home test: Apply a couple of drops of blue food color to your tongue and swallow a few times. Then examine your tongue’s surface; fungiform papillae won’t pick up the dye, so they’ll look like pink polka dots on a blue background. If your tongue appears to be almost solid pink, then you have tons of fungiform papillae and may be a supertaster.”

I’m hoping to try your PBJ fudge tonight — although I’m trying to figure out how I can make it without coconut…hmmm.

I’ve tried the high protein mushroom stroganoff but would love to try more of your recipes.

I’m just so terribly lazy when it comes to the kitchen, and baking in particular! I’m also a bit intimidated by sweet things and scared that they’ll go wrong in my clumsy hands. Really there’s no excuse for not trying the Deep Dish Cookie Pie or Cookie Dough Dip/other blendable chickpea recipes though. I must find some vegan choc chips ASAP (so hard to find where I live!)

xxx

I made your healthy chocolate chip cookies and was pleasantly surprised. They didn’t exactly taste like normal chocolate chip cookies (and mine didn’t look as pretty as the photos!), but they were still pretty darn good.

As a side note, I had one questions:

Can you used sweetened coconut when making coconut butter? My grocery store doesn’t carry unsweetened 🙁

I’ve tried several of your recipes (with many more bookmarked!) I recently became Vegan and your recipes have all been great, plus many are perfect for just one!

My favorite recipe of yours is the mint chocolate chip milkshake-GARSH!!!! SO good! You are my savior 😀 Because it is my favorite flavor of all time, and I can still have it even though I am sugar-free, dairy-free! YAY! I seriously make it at least three times a week 😀

Yes you highlighted great ones!

I realize it may sort of be a duplication of your recipes page but you could put even more on there. Like one from within the recipe theme. One cookie dough ball, one pancake, one dessert/bean-based dip, but I am not sure if those are your favorites but I’d say put them on there!

I have been updating my About, Press, Popular tabs this week too. It’s so exciting. <—NOT! but it needed to happen!

your recipes have all been hits with the people i have made them for! i have tried many fudge baby variations, all yummy. my fiance loves to make the choco syrup with agave and cocoa powder for his ice cream and i just last night made my first batch of choco chip blondies. they were a ht at the bar b que we went to. sooo good!

I’m pretty sure you already know that I have tried many of your recipes! I really want to try your blondies

Love the single serve cookies and not guilty cookies. I made the the PB cookies with almond butter, stevia baking blend and earth balance! They were yummy! I notice the stevia baking blend makes my baked goods a little more crumbly, but still yummy. I have a recipe substitution question if you have a chances 🙂 …I have a cookie recipe that calls for 1/2 cup of maple syrup which I would like to reduce, but because it is a liquid I don’t want to mess up the consistency…I was thinking make up the difference with applesauce and/or nondairy milk. I welcome your suggestions!
Thanks!

I actually JUST tried out your mushroom stroganoff (I’m late to the party, I know!)

I talked about it here: http://nmmumaw.blogspot.com/2011/07/kind-of-weird-japanese-food-shirataki.html

It was really, really good. And I liked the boozy edge using mirin gave it. I think I may try adding in a pinch of brewer’s yeast next time for a more powerful, funky flavor.

One of your recipes that I make most often is the single-lady cupcake, though I make the recipe a smidge bigger so it’s a single lady cake instead! I usually eat it with coconut butter, which you also introduced me to (a thousand thanks for that) (actually, just thanks in general!)